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Chellomedia buys MGM’s international channels
Chellomedia has acquired Hollywood studio MGM’s international channels, adding over 40 million homes to its…
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EBU and VRT launch MPEG-DASH trial
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Belgian broadcaster VRT have used the London Olympics to…
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Cisco completes NDS acquisition
Cisco has completed the acquisition of TV software company NDS. Cisco paid approximately $5 billion…
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Now TV launches on Apple devices
Now TV, BSkyB’s new online platform, is now available on iPhones and iPads. The streaming…
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Global IPTV subscribers to triple
Global IPTV subscribers will triple between now and the end of 2017, driven in particular…
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Google pushes back media streamer launch
Google has pushed back the launch of its planned Nexus Q media player, which is…
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CME sees revenues fall
Central and eastern European broadcaster Central European Media Enterprises (CME) saw revenues fall 15% as…
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Icahn sells out of MGM, studio preps IPO
Carl Icahn has sold his stake in MGM, clearing the way for the Hollywood studio…
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Tough times for Mediaset’s pay and ad businesses
Revenues from Mediaset’s pay TV platform declined slightly during the first half of the year….
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Apple adds Hulu Plus to Apple TV
Apple has added the Hulu Plus subscription service to its Apple TV device in the…
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ViewSat chooses Harmonic headend
UK satellite service provider ViewSat has installed a digital video headend from Harmonic to deliver…
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Thomson Video Networks enhances NetProcessor
Video compression specialist Thomson Video Networks has launched a new version of its NetProcessor 9030/40…
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MTIS adds Viasat Sport
Belarusian service provider MTIS has dropped the CHL (Continental Hockey League) channel, replacing it with…
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VimpelCom names Moscow technology chief
Russian quad-play service provider VimpelCom has named Sergey Bauman as technology director for its Moscow…
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Broadcast TV should be delivered via the internet, say UK peers
A new report from the UK’s House of Lords has called for TV services to…
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Hans Holger Albrecht leaving MTG; Jørgen Madsen named new CEO
Hans Holger Albrecht is leaving the Modern Times Group after twelve years at the helm…
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BBC iPlayer sets Olympic record
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has set the record for the most number…
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Amazon’s LoveFilm inks Miramax deal
LoveFilm has inked a deal with movie distributor Miramax giving the Amazon-owned service’s customers in…
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Set-top market to reach €12 billion this year, report says
The overall set-top box market, including cable, satellite, IP and hybrid set-tops, will grow modestly…
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Viacom launching new Comedy Central channel in the Adriatic
Viacom’s international channels division will launch Comedy Central Extra across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia,…
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Telekom Slovenia drops Viasat channels
Telekom Slovenia has removed a number of Viasat channels from its SiOL TV platform. The…
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Video services increase Eutelsat revenues
Sustained growth from Eutelsat’s video applications business helped the satellite operator increase full year revenues…
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Shareholders reduce stake in Ziggo
Shareholders of Dutch cable operator Ziggo have sold a further 14.5% stake in the company…
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Dimetis’s Boss Stream Viewer supports Dolby standards
Dimetis’s Boss Stream Viewer, a software based multi viewer for monitoring and analysis of video…
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Ono hoping TiVo will prevent pay TV decline
Ono had attracted 34,000 TiVo customers by the end of June, eight months after the…
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Romtelecom and Cosmote launch TV app
Romanian pay TV operators Romtelecom and Cosmote have rolled out an application that allows broadband…
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KPN makes online TV service available on smartphones
Dutch telco KPN is making its online TV service available on smartphones within subscribers’ households….
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MTG buys Swedish communications operator
The Modern Times Group has acquired control of Swedish open access communications operator Zitius. No…
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Brightcove acquires HTML5 specialist Zencoder
Online video specialist Brightcove has acquired cloud-based encoding company and HTML5 video player provider Zencoder….
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CNN boss Jim Walton resigns
Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide, has resigned. He said that CNN needs new…